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Welcome to FinGeo's News & Thoughts, your hub for financial geography insights. Explore where financial landscapes meet geographic trends. Stay informed, inspired, and navigate the dynamic intersections of money globally. Dive into our blog for analysis, updates, and a deeper understanding of global financial geography.
Financialising the State: Recent developments in fiscal and monetary policy
– Ewa Karwowski, Marcos Centurion-Vicencio – The financialisation of the state is widely assumed but rarely analysed in detail. After all...
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Feb 6, 20183 min read
The geographies of financial activities within an emerging international financial center: the case
– Fenghua Pan, Sarah Hall, Hua Zhang – Despite Beijing being the well-known political center of China, its reputation as an international...
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Jan 14, 20181 min read
Unfinished business: change in the US securities industry since 2008
Sculpture: Kristen Visbal – Photo: Federica Valabreg – Dariusz Wójcik, Theodor Cojoianu – On 7 March 2017, the eve of International...
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Nov 1, 20173 min read
Geographical Changes in Influence of Stock Trading Centres around the 2007 Global Financial Crisis
– Boulis M. Ibrahim, Janusz Brzeszczyński, Arnab Bhattacharjee – The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007 was a major event and a key...
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Oct 4, 20172 min read
The Geography of Tax Evasion
– Manuel B. Aalbers – What is it about? Taxation in general and tax evasion in particular are inherently geographical in nature but not...
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Sep 28, 20172 min read
Geographical limits to arbitrage in the global oil market
– Michael H. Grote, Matthew Zook, Thomas Heidorn – For more than 30 years, the world’s main indices for oil prices – West Texas...
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Aug 4, 20173 min read
The Increasing Financialization of China’s Urbanization
– Thierry Theurillat, James H. Lenzer Jr. & Hongyu Zhan – Mainland China is well known for its massive and rampant urban development,...
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Jul 7, 20172 min read
Financial Circuits: Cyclicality, Leakiness and Social Housing Finance in Ireland and Denmark
– Michael Byrne and Michelle Norris – Denmark and Ireland are both small, open economies and both countries experienced housing bubbles...
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Jul 6, 20174 min read
Cluster dynamics of financial centres in the United Kingdom: Do connected firms grow faster?
– Vladimír Pažitka and Dariusz Wójcik – The aftermath of the global financial crisis (GFC) has seen a sharp reduction in employment in...
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Jul 6, 20173 min read
What is Financialization?
– Manuel B. Aalbers – Many financial geographers use the term “financialization”. But what is financialization? It clearly has to do with...
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Apr 4, 20173 min read
What on Earth is Financial Geography?
—Dariusz Wójcik— Is not financial geography an oxymoron? Why should geographers, naturally interested in travel, outdoors, breathing...
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Mar 21, 20173 min read
Housing and Finance across Space and Time
—Rodrigo Fernandez— This working paper provides an empirical overview of how housing-centred financialization developed across space and...
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Mar 21, 20172 min read
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